1914<\/strong> – The first transcontinental telephone service was inaugurated when two people held a conversation between New York, NY and San Francisco, CA.<\/p>\n 1940<\/strong> – John Sigmund of St. Louis, MO, completed a 292-mile swim down the Mississippi River. The swim from St. Louis to Caruthersville, MO took him 89 hours and 48 minutes.<\/p>\n 1950<\/strong> – Disney’s adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s “Treasure Island” was released. 1957<\/strong> – Jack Paar began hosting the “Tonight” show on NBC-TV. The name of the show was changed to “The Jack Paar Show.” Paar was the host for five years.<\/p>\n 1957<\/strong> – The International Atomic Energy Agency was established.<\/p>\n 1958<\/strong> – The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was authorized by the U.S. Congress.<\/p>\n 1968<\/strong> – Pope Paul VI reaffirmed the Roman Catholic Church’s stance against artificial methods of birth control.<\/p>\n 1975<\/strong> – OAS (Organization of American States) members voted to lift collective sanctions against Cuba. The U.S. government welcomed the action and announced its intention to open serious discussions with Cuba on normalization.<\/p>\n 1981<\/strong> – England’s Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer were married.<\/p>\n 1983<\/strong> – Steve Garvey (Los Angeles Dodgers) set the National League consecutive game record at 1,207.<\/p>\n 1985<\/strong> – General Motors announced that Spring Hill, TN, would be the home of the Saturn automobile assembly plant.<\/p>\n 1993<\/strong> – The Israeli Supreme Court acquitted retired Ohio autoworker John Demjanjuk of being Nazi death camp guard “Ivan the Terrible.” His death sentence was thrown out and he was set free.<\/p>\n 1997<\/strong> – Minamata Bay in Japan was declared free of mercury 40 years after contaminated food fish were blamed for deaths and birth defects.<\/p>\n 1998<\/strong> – The United Auto Workers union ended a 54-day strike against General Motors. The strike caused $2.8 billion in lost revenues.<\/p>\n 2005<\/strong> – Astronomers announced that they had discovered a new planet (Xena) larger than Pluto in orbit around the sun.<\/p>\n 2010<\/strong> \u2013 An overloaded passenger ferry capsizes on the Kasai River in Bandundu Province, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, resulting in at least 80 deaths.<\/p>\n 2013<\/strong> \u2013 Two passenger trains collide in the Swiss municipality of Granges-pr\u00e8s-Marnand near Lausanne injuring 25 people.<\/p>\n 1981<\/strong> \u2013 Fernando Alonso, Spanish race car driver History of 29 July 1914 – The first transcontinental telephone service was inaugurated when two people held a conversation between New York, NY and San Francisco, CA. 1940 – John Sigmund of St. Louis, MO, completed a 292-mile swim down the Mississippi River. 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\nDisney movies, music, and books<\/p>\nCelebrating Birthday Today<\/strong><\/h2>\n
\n1981<\/strong> \u2013 Andr\u00e9s Madrid, the Argentinian footballer
\n1981<\/strong> \u2013 Troy Perkins, American soccer player
\n1982<\/strong> \u2013 Janez Aljan\u010di\u010d, Slovenian footballer
\n1982<\/strong> \u2013 J\u00f4natas Domingos, Brazilian footballer
\n1982<\/strong> \u2013 Allison Mack, American actress, and criminal
\n1983<\/strong> \u2013 Jason Belmonte, Australian bowler
\n1983<\/strong> \u2013 In\u00e9s G\u00f3mez Mont, Mexican journalist, and actress
\n1983<\/strong> \u2013 Alexei Kaigorodov, Russian ice hockey player
\n1983<\/strong> \u2013 Jerious Norwood, American football player
\n1983<\/strong> \u2013 Elise Testone, American singer-songwriter
\n1984<\/strong> \u2013 Oh Beom-Seok, South Korean footballer
\n1984<\/strong> \u2013 Chad Billingsley, American baseball player
\n1984<\/strong> \u2013 Wilson Palacios, Honduran footballer
\n1985<\/strong> \u2013 Besart Berisha, Albanian footballer
\n1985<\/strong> \u2013 Okinoumi Ayumi, Japanese sumo wrestler
\n1985<\/strong> \u2013 Simon Santoso, Indonesian badminton player
\n1988<\/strong> \u2013 Tarjei B\u00f8, Norwegian biathlete
\n1989<\/strong> \u2013 Grit \u0160adeiko, Estonian heptathlete
\n1991<\/strong> \u2013 Dale Copley, Australian rugby league player
\n1991<\/strong> \u2013 Irakli Logga, Russian footballer
\n1992<\/strong> \u2013 Karen Torrez, Bolivian swimmer
\n1993<\/strong> \u2013 Nicole Melichar, an American tennis player
\n1994<\/strong> \u2013 Liam O’Brien, Canadian ice hockey player<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"